A little story from the early days of EK:
The cabin crew had just won an award for best cabin crew in some poll or contest. At the awards ceremony, MF stood up and accepted the award, attributing the results to management's hard work and ground breaking processes, management's ability and management's management etc. etc.. As Richard Branson stood up to accept second place for Virgin's cabin crew, he graciously congratulated Emirates but said that MF had been remiss in not mentioning the people that had actually won the award, the cabin crew. He then congratulated them himself.
This story was told to me so I'm not actually certain that it's true but it does illustrate the mindset here at Emirates.